CFT: Unity 6.6

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:57:08 -0400
Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

> Chris, are you able to boot in recovery mode, or boot into an alternate 
> desktop? If so, then you should be able to file a bug.
> 
> Additionally, how did this come about? Did you update and have this 
> issue? Does a livecd from say, today's daily image, boot up and load a 
> live session on the machine? Does re-installing unity help at all? I 
> would start trying to debug the source of the problem via these 
> questions; probably before I even filed the bug so I would be able to 
> give good information. When your ready file a bug against unity (and 
> mention it's video related, hence it will also file against compiz).
> 
> ubuntu-bug unity
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Nicholas
> 
> On 09/21/2012 12:49 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> > (bump)
> >
> > not looking for a fix below, just an idea on how to file a bug report
> > from a machine whose desktop is not running...
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Unity is not working on my older Toshiba A70, once I log in (This machine
> >> automatically falls over to Unity-2d in 12.04 and prior).
> >>
> >> Right now I am staring at a nice royal blue screen. The touch pad can move
> >> the cursor but that is about it. no decoration of any kind. no response to
> >> right clicks.
> >>
> >> I can ctrl alt f1 into a terminal session.
> >>
> >> at the end of syslog i see warnings few gnome-session:
> >>
> >> WARNING: App 'compiz.desktop' respawning too quickly
> >> CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. sorry...
> >>
> >> not sure how to file a bug report for this.
> 
> 

It's possible this machine has an old video card that is not supported
by Unity. It has always fallen back to 2d, is it even 3d capable? Or,
does Unity no longer require 3d capability?

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